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one on election day. now they send out one every two minutes it seems. >> it was all facebook in '08. >> they're on pinterest and twitter and all the different things. >> they're literally on twitter behind us right now. you know, on our big -- this is the live feed for both barack obama and mitt romney. if fact, if you guys are watching, feel free to tweet us here. use the nerdland hash tag. right. you're right. certainly twitter is a platform. >> here's what was good. i was in tampa for the last couple of days, went to three or four field offices in the obama campaign and saw them putting people out on the ground with clip boards going door to door. they figured out how to marry up the old field organizing campaign with the new online campaign to make it all kind of work seamlessly. >> i'll tell you, they're ipads, not clipboards anymore. >> old school. >> we're going new school with ipads and other stuff. what i've seen and amy jo i love your opinions. 140 million facebook users. facebook has people ta
one on election day. now they send out one every two minutes it seems. >> it was all facebook in '08. >> they're on pinterest and twitter and all the different things. >> they're literally on twitter behind us right now. you know, on our big -- this is the live feed for both barack obama and mitt romney. if fact, if you guys are watching, feel free to tweet us here. use the nerdland hash tag. right. you're right. certainly twitter is a platform. >> here's what was good....
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we all know that one of the reasons is on the wrong side of student loan reform in election year. is that fair to kids that their future is always up like a ball all the time in. >> it's a great question. particularly this issue about uncertainty. you were both talking about empathy. you all -- you were -- angie, you were at the dnc talking about the importance of community colleges and of colleges. how does the student loan question impact the kind of choices that you make as a young person thinking about higher education. >> it's a major impact for it. because i have students in my college and i'm constantly surrounded by that this affects 100%. it affects whether they go to school or whether they decide i can't afford school. i'll have to take up a regular job somewhere else. i won't be able to go on and reach that goal that i have to get my education. that is a major impact. when individuals see this, they need to take the students' lives into consideration because these are our lives. and the fact that we can't reach our goals because we can't pay for school is horrible. >> f
we all know that one of the reasons is on the wrong side of student loan reform in election year. is that fair to kids that their future is always up like a ball all the time in. >> it's a great question. particularly this issue about uncertainty. you were both talking about empathy. you all -- you were -- angie, you were at the dnc talking about the importance of community colleges and of colleges. how does the student loan question impact the kind of choices that you make as a young...
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he lost in a landslide election to republican richard nixon. in a statement, the mcgovern family said "we are blessed to know that our father lived a long, successful and productive life. advocating for the hungry, fighting for peace." mcgovern long will be remembered for his unwavering opposition to war and war is where we begin this morning. today we're taking you back to june 28th, 1914. yes. june 28, 1914. that was the day that a foreign emissary was assassinated while on a diplomatic mission in sarajevo. that set off a chain of events that led to the largest global conflict the world had ever seen. on that fateful day, a 19-year-old took the life of arch duke franz ferdinand. knowing the dead to the austrian hungarian empire would not go unanswered, serbia appealed to their russian neighbors for help. believing this crisis wab on excuse for war in the balance kins, russian readied its army. hungary had declared on serbia. a few days later, after hearing news of this, germany declared war on russia. hoping to keep russia's ally at bay, the
he lost in a landslide election to republican richard nixon. in a statement, the mcgovern family said "we are blessed to know that our father lived a long, successful and productive life. advocating for the hungry, fighting for peace." mcgovern long will be remembered for his unwavering opposition to war and war is where we begin this morning. today we're taking you back to june 28th, 1914. yes. june 28, 1914. that was the day that a foreign emissary was assassinated while on a...
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he hadn't just been re-elected. the dynamics of the policy situation were such that were doing nothing hurt the president more than it hurt the republicans. most people think it's the reverse now. in fairness to boehner, he's got the same problem he had before. he has a caucus. i suspect if you put boehner and the president in a room together, they could probably find out some deal. but the problem for boehner, he has this conservative caucus. the interesting question is how long will it take, what will it take for him to sell his republicans, his republican kau caucus on a deal. >> does he have the big enough stick, can he pull them into line, which is really the question here. do they see there being a significant cost for them. they're two years out from an election, right? two whole years. a lot happens in that time. do they see enough of a cost for bucking the president here. >> up next, the other thing i love about second terms is everything that changes had terms of personnel right? you get to line up a new c
he hadn't just been re-elected. the dynamics of the policy situation were such that were doing nothing hurt the president more than it hurt the republicans. most people think it's the reverse now. in fairness to boehner, he's got the same problem he had before. he has a caucus. i suspect if you put boehner and the president in a room together, they could probably find out some deal. but the problem for boehner, he has this conservative caucus. the interesting question is how long will it take,...
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and elected in the last cycle and we will see if the same people get elected in this cycle, but the only way that the country will be governed with the problems coming down the road after the e lek shun is done is if people compromise and the way that things are going right now, it is not going to happen. >> and at the same time though, melissa, you made a good point, we always like the other side to have the moderates, because the liberals were not pleased with the existence of people like ben nelson and evan bayh, and also in 2010 a purging of the democratic moderates and without those people in the middle -- >> and outcrying critique of president obama. >> and being for health care reform. and that is an example that is not perfect by any means, but what you get in washington when people compromise, and neither side really likes it, but we have had a redefinition of moderate. dick lugar is not a moderate. he is a conservative. >> and yes! >> and when we yearn for dick lugar and ronald reagan. >> and bob bennett. >> yes. rig right. >> and then to your point, when we talk about the
and elected in the last cycle and we will see if the same people get elected in this cycle, but the only way that the country will be governed with the problems coming down the road after the e lek shun is done is if people compromise and the way that things are going right now, it is not going to happen. >> and at the same time though, melissa, you made a good point, we always like the other side to have the moderates, because the liberals were not pleased with the existence of people...
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because as he writes, if my guy won, the election is fair and square. but if your guy one, there must be -- >> telling the truth is a revolutionary act. >>> with me now, diana if you remember got roth, senior fellow at the manhattan institute. former chief of staff of president george w. bush's council of economic advisers, also author of regulating to disaster. jason johnson is a political science professor and an editor of politic 365.com and the source magazine. joy reed of the gri owe.com and bill schneider political analyst of the mod ral thierate think t. great to have you here. >> the lefties watching the first presidential debate had this great desire for the president to fact check governor romney while it was happening. based on what i've said, would that have been strategic or useful as a position for him to take in that? >> i'm so glad you're talking about this. wooech reached a point, we've got a your president, my president dialog going on. republicans only accept the legitimacy of republican presidents and democrats, because of bush v gor
because as he writes, if my guy won, the election is fair and square. but if your guy one, there must be -- >> telling the truth is a revolutionary act. >>> with me now, diana if you remember got roth, senior fellow at the manhattan institute. former chief of staff of president george w. bush's council of economic advisers, also author of regulating to disaster. jason johnson is a political science professor and an editor of politic 365.com and the source magazine. joy reed of...
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and elections are just one of the cycles that we go through. today, i think that you will see a low turnout. i think that you will see a mixed results, and i don't think it is going to be based on religion. i think that it is going to be based on what the hopes of people are. i think that's just fine. >> and it is a great point that sort of this idea of the multiple cross cutting ideas, right, people going into the polls with all of the anxieties and the concerns and one of the things that i really liked professor wilson about how you have written about catholic voting is that your point on the one hand that the church has to focus on life. you say that life issues and a pro life stance mustt remain central to the prism through which the church views a political world, but then you also ask how many people know that the church is a champion for the human rights of immigrants both documented and undocumented and how many people know that the american church is edadvocating for universal acce to health care, and how many people know about the adv
and elections are just one of the cycles that we go through. today, i think that you will see a low turnout. i think that you will see a mixed results, and i don't think it is going to be based on religion. i think that it is going to be based on what the hopes of people are. i think that's just fine. >> and it is a great point that sort of this idea of the multiple cross cutting ideas, right, people going into the polls with all of the anxieties and the concerns and one of the things...
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you say it's a base election. a presidential election, not ought to be a base election. this ought to be a big, broad election, we are hoping have the independents, moderates, qings, one thing when it happens in an offyear election, is this about keeping the moderates out of the election? i think this is the beenergize e and we are looking at theorys and conservatism. >> ah! could we please have an ad about that? >> but at the end of the day, the person who doesn't identify with each party, 122 million to 16 million people in each state, what's happening in this election, human nature and technology have collided. blogs, huffington, everybody out there, and that's why this one is going to be decided so late. we were talking in the room earlier, this will be election that neither party's base will decide that that person who kicked the republicans out in 2006 over spending, put republicans back in the house in 2010 on spending in my opinion, and that's the way we're all going. >> kate, are you going to tell me that this is an issue based election. >> i wish it was. >> i f
you say it's a base election. a presidential election, not ought to be a base election. this ought to be a big, broad election, we are hoping have the independents, moderates, qings, one thing when it happens in an offyear election, is this about keeping the moderates out of the election? i think this is the beenergize e and we are looking at theorys and conservatism. >> ah! could we please have an ad about that? >> but at the end of the day, the person who doesn't identify with...
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this election is not over. wake up. joining me, gwen moore, ari melber and brentin mock and dave zirin. the heidi game reminds us it is not over until it is over. despite these great polls, what are we looking at in the next month? >> i thought you were going to go with samuel jackson, i want the snakes off the plane and i would like the superpacs being the snakes. we could do a lot of samuel l. jackson. >> i will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger those who will attempt to destroy my brothers. >> a lot of you know my name is the lord when i lay my vengeance upon thee. that should be obama's slogan for the first debates. >> they don't know the second hour of nhp is a drinking game. >> congresswoman, i'm almost sad i put you at this table. >> really, i'm not ready to pop open the champagne cork for president obama, because, you know, the republicans have what i call scissergy where the sun, the moon, and the stars have all lined up in their benefit to change the game here. number one, they have citizens u
this election is not over. wake up. joining me, gwen moore, ari melber and brentin mock and dave zirin. the heidi game reminds us it is not over until it is over. despite these great polls, what are we looking at in the next month? >> i thought you were going to go with samuel jackson, i want the snakes off the plane and i would like the superpacs being the snakes. we could do a lot of samuel l. jackson. >> i will strike down with great vengeance and furious anger those who will...
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that did help him get elected, that want to see him elected again, but beyond that, want to exercise their right to democracy without republican state legislatures standing in the way and blocking them at every turn. >> on the one hand, i love the notion of part of the civil rights movement, the work of the church against the ultimate voter suppression issue, jim crow, but i'm nervous about the church for the same reason i'm nervous about the muslim brotherhood it comes with its own ideological package that may be beyond partisanship. they may sort of generally end up registering people who are going to vote for president obama, but they might also be registering people just after preaching a service, it's adam and eve, not adam and steve. >> this is not -- we're not talking about a religious fundamentalist running for office. we're talking about a base of people mobiling followers, which shouldn't make us feel uncomfortable. it should encourage us. it increases the number of people participating in the electoral process. that's what we're talking about. not religious fundamentalism
that did help him get elected, that want to see him elected again, but beyond that, want to exercise their right to democracy without republican state legislatures standing in the way and blocking them at every turn. >> on the one hand, i love the notion of part of the civil rights movement, the work of the church against the ultimate voter suppression issue, jim crow, but i'm nervous about the church for the same reason i'm nervous about the muslim brotherhood it comes with its own...
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senators. 40 elected to the house. they came with a strategy. focus on the deficit and refuse, absolutely refuse. no matter what is at stake, refuse to compromise. the result? a 2011 standoff on the debt ceiling which brings us to 2012 and the tea party is still a major player. affiliated vote, true the vote, is set to impact this election through efforts to suppress turnout by aggressively challenging voters at the polls. tomorrow is the anniversary of a different grassroots movement. on september 17th, 2011, young people organized in protest of growing inequality and shrinking opportunity. their tactic? occupy. wall street. in order to draw attention to the plight of ordinary americans. and like the tea part, protests grew and occupy camps popped up in dozens of american cities. few media outlets covered the protest until october 2011. that was when local officials deployed police to end the occupation. then in the middle of the night on november 15th under a media blackout, the original occupy camp in zuccotti park was cleared by police in ri
senators. 40 elected to the house. they came with a strategy. focus on the deficit and refuse, absolutely refuse. no matter what is at stake, refuse to compromise. the result? a 2011 standoff on the debt ceiling which brings us to 2012 and the tea party is still a major player. affiliated vote, true the vote, is set to impact this election through efforts to suppress turnout by aggressively challenging voters at the polls. tomorrow is the anniversary of a different grassroots movement. on...
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>> listen, anybody who is a member of congress was elected and sent there. that means that they reflect the voters and they have to work together to come up with a compromise. when i think the platform that paul has it's an amazing platform in "the new york times" where he could be doing is laying out all sorts of proposals for how to fix the short-term problems of jobs and the economy which he focuses on and the long-term problems of the debt and he takes shot at people like me because i'm a political independent. instead of saying -- let me just finish. instead of pointing fingers and instead of pointing fingers, i really think we need to have republicans and democrats work together and compromise on this. we all agree with that, maya mcginnis. i think it is worth noting that the gop has 115 times, 115 times the republican minority has held up a bill's passage or they've threatened to filibuster. 115 times, that is unprecedented, is it not? >> so you're talking about filibusters. you're talking about the way that washington is actually not able to get anyt
>> listen, anybody who is a member of congress was elected and sent there. that means that they reflect the voters and they have to work together to come up with a compromise. when i think the platform that paul has it's an amazing platform in "the new york times" where he could be doing is laying out all sorts of proposals for how to fix the short-term problems of jobs and the economy which he focuses on and the long-term problems of the debt and he takes shot at people like me...
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but -- we are not just electing a person. we are not just electing a person. mitt romney, though disliked by a lot in the -- many in the republican party, is a vehicle for forces. like -- the koch brothers, shelley adelson. in order to effect deregulation, lower taxes, a vision of an america that would set us back and dismantle the civilizing events to this country, socially, culturally and politically. you can see i care deeply about this. he is not -- he is not just a person. he is a vehicle important the force. >> i would say he is a mirror. we have a great piece talking about the role after consultant. he is the consultant's consultant. at most accounts he is very good at that job. you go in and you say to someone you flatter that person in order to get their business. you hold up a nice mirror to them so that you can convince them to hand over the strategy to this guy. and that's what he has done for the republican party. his views have been incoherent all along. he avoids as katrina pointed out. he does not have a specific tax plan. i don't care about hi
but -- we are not just electing a person. we are not just electing a person. mitt romney, though disliked by a lot in the -- many in the republican party, is a vehicle for forces. like -- the koch brothers, shelley adelson. in order to effect deregulation, lower taxes, a vision of an america that would set us back and dismantle the civilizing events to this country, socially, culturally and politically. you can see i care deeply about this. he is not -- he is not just a person. he is a vehicle...
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the first elected president since hosni mubarak was overthrown after the 30 years of rule in the arab spring. and in most accounts the arab television suggests that the islamic brotherhood's candidate is ahead of the tack in a dozen candidates and those results show him behind the former prime minister who is a veteran of mubarak's tenure. the two will likely face each other in the runoff in june. richard engel is the chief foreign correspondent and covered the revolution since last year and there now to cover the election. he joins us from cairo. hi, richard. >> well, first of all i have been on your show, to good to join you, and thanks to the having me on. >> i am excited to have you. these two candidates who ended up in the runoff are the most polarizing candidates the islamic brotherhood and the old mubarak regime and what does it mean for the election for egypt going forward? >> well, let me put it to you this way. here in the bureau in cairo last night several people here who were supporters of the revolution, who were out in tahrir square to topple mubarak when there was an ai
the first elected president since hosni mubarak was overthrown after the 30 years of rule in the arab spring. and in most accounts the arab television suggests that the islamic brotherhood's candidate is ahead of the tack in a dozen candidates and those results show him behind the former prime minister who is a veteran of mubarak's tenure. the two will likely face each other in the runoff in june. richard engel is the chief foreign correspondent and covered the revolution since last year and...
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back on november 14th, after the election, he was flexing about his support for susan rice. i want to listen to that for a second. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but, for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received and to hurt her reputation is outrageous. >> this moment, he seems to recognize, this is a fight about nothing. she hasn't done anything wrong. >> right. >> i want to fight this not because it won't take capital, but build a little. >> the question is what happened between now and then, right? i think what is frustrating is she removed herself from the situation. she made the decision she doesn't want to be considered secretary of state. i'm not a friend of susan rice, i'm not inside her head, but i think it's ludicrous. brian williams said of course you want this job. the idea she decided to remove herself from the situation that she jumped and
back on november 14th, after the election, he was flexing about his support for susan rice. i want to listen to that for a second. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. i'm happy to have that discussion with them. but, for them to go after the u.n. ambassador who had nothing to do with benghazi, and was simply making a presentation based on intelligence she had received and to hurt her reputation is outrageous. >> this...
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, if you have enough money to buy the election, our rules have enough money to let you buy the election. that sucks but oh well. it feels less to depress the ability for people to cast a vote. angela, i want to come back to you for a second. we saw this in ohio in 2004 when ken blackwell as secretary of state passed a variety of rules very close to the election just like we're seeing now. are folks in ohio mobilized against what is happening there? >> absolutely. in fact, i have two attorneys on my campaign team who have been active in protecting the vote for quite some time. people are engaged and active. they want to vote. this is exciting. it's exciting for people to want to cast their ballots. we should encourage more of it. if someone wants to suppress a vote, you have to wonder why. if someone is trying to suppress a vote, it must be because they are afraid that you're going to vote against them for a very good reason. i encourage everyone to vote. come on out and vote. make the decision. it is yours to make. that's what it means to live in a democracy in the united states of amer
, if you have enough money to buy the election, our rules have enough money to let you buy the election. that sucks but oh well. it feels less to depress the ability for people to cast a vote. angela, i want to come back to you for a second. we saw this in ohio in 2004 when ken blackwell as secretary of state passed a variety of rules very close to the election just like we're seeing now. are folks in ohio mobilized against what is happening there? >> absolutely. in fact, i have two...
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and a presidential election, supposed to happen in 2005, happened in 2006. that's obviously a long time ago, and what happened since then is a combination of them looking for an exit strategy and other people looking for an exit strategy for them. what the cholera epidemic has done, when we talk about the impact on the reconstruction, what we're looking at here is a situation where they are simply by the evidence, all appearnesseappearness s wouldn't be a cholera epidemic if they weren't here, and if they would have been hygienic in their bases in general. >> this question of this interconnection between u.n. and cholera in haiti, coming up, more on this issue. join us. this one's for all us lawnsmiths. grass gurus. doers. here's to more saturdays in the sun. and budgets better spent. here's to turning rookies - into experts, and shoppers into savers. here's to picking up. trading up. mixing it up. to well-earned muddy boots. and a lot more - spring per dollar. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. wipe out weeds for less, with bayer a
and a presidential election, supposed to happen in 2005, happened in 2006. that's obviously a long time ago, and what happened since then is a combination of them looking for an exit strategy and other people looking for an exit strategy for them. what the cholera epidemic has done, when we talk about the impact on the reconstruction, what we're looking at here is a situation where they are simply by the evidence, all appearnesseappearness s wouldn't be a cholera epidemic if they weren't here,...
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in the last election cycle, the nra spent more than $18 million backing pro-gun candidates. but with all that money, the group didn't have so much success. six of the seven nra-backed candidates lost their bids for the senate and of 26 house incumbents that failed to be re-elected, 18 were nra favorites. in fact, the sunlight foundation named the nra one of the most ineffective outside spenders in the 2012 election cycle, yet as a single issue organization, they have long been seen as one of the most influential policy advocates. back with my panel. before we even get into that question, the other thing that has changed about the nra is that their membership, while it is growing, i think they have like four million members strong, actual gun ownership in the country is declining and it has been declining. we have a graphic that shows the change in gun ownership from the '70s until today. so back in 1973, one in two households were gun-owning households. in 2010, that became one in three. in 1980, one in three individuals, one in three people, had a gun. in 2010, it's one in
in the last election cycle, the nra spent more than $18 million backing pro-gun candidates. but with all that money, the group didn't have so much success. six of the seven nra-backed candidates lost their bids for the senate and of 26 house incumbents that failed to be re-elected, 18 were nra favorites. in fact, the sunlight foundation named the nra one of the most ineffective outside spenders in the 2012 election cycle, yet as a single issue organization, they have long been seen as one of...
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and right now, boehner wants to get re-elected speaker, and so he is trying to walk away from the deal as much as possible to not jeopardize the speakership. so he has technically thrown it to the senate. constitutionally it has to go through both houses. >> just constitutional ly. minor detail. >> and boehner is constitutionally dammed because he is getting out of it and burned too much. so if reid and mcconnell can get through the deal that is not filibustered, they have to amend a bill in the house that extends the tax cuts for everybody, and gut that bill, because it has to emerge from there, and then fill it, and hope and pray that boehner can find 30 republicans to vote for it. >> that is the story that you feel when the president is saying that ordinary american citizens can not understand what is happening here and why we can't when there is such broad agreement that we don't want taxes to go up on households under $250 and social entitlements that we need there, and we can't get an agreement. stay there, everybody. i want to get truth out of one member of congress, and why? be
and right now, boehner wants to get re-elected speaker, and so he is trying to walk away from the deal as much as possible to not jeopardize the speakership. so he has technically thrown it to the senate. constitutionally it has to go through both houses. >> just constitutional ly. minor detail. >> and boehner is constitutionally dammed because he is getting out of it and burned too much. so if reid and mcconnell can get through the deal that is not filibustered, they have to amend...